Ovaltine? Not in my world On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 5:30:43 AM UTC-6, Peter White wrote: > > Yup. V brakes have mercifully gone the way of primogeniture, human > sacrifice, hair shirts and Ovaltine. Now if we could only do away with > tattoos and calling anything and everything not objectionable "AWESOME!", > we'd be on the highway to paradise. > > PJW > > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Steve Palincsar <pali...@his.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> >> >> On 01/10/2017 07:13 PM, Eric Daume wrote: >> >>> I'll say, V brakes are the ones that don't seem to get any respect. >>> Cantis still have some cool factor from the 'cross crowd, but V brake seem >>> mostly relegated to cheap hybrids. But if you look at power, cost, weight, >>> modulation, and set up ease, I think V's would at least get a podium finish >>> in every category. >>> >>> >>> >> A prize for modulation? They give prizes for not having any? In my - >> admittedly limited - experience, V brakes have all the modulation of an >> electric light switch and all the simplicity of the binary numbering >> system: ON and OFF with nothing in between. Then, there's butt ugly, >> incompatible with standard brake levers and integrated brake/shift levers >> and interference with fenders to add to their "charms." >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Peter White >
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